Looking For A Gift That Will Really Piss Your Loved Ones Off? Greg Palast’s New Book Should Do The Trick.
Greg Palast’s new book, Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores, really pissed me off. I’m sure it could do the same for your friends…
Chevron’s Brazil Oil Spill Just The Latest Symptom Of Our Addiction To Oil
If the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster taught us anything, it’s that Big Oil has been doing very little over the last few decades to prevent oil spills despite their obscene…
Thus Far and No Further: Gulf Coast and Arizona Activists Fight Back
There are all kinds of action camps planned this month that will be challenging the root causes of climate change— i.e. the fossil fuel industry—in the Midwest, Southeast and Pacific…
Rev. Billy Exorcises BP from London’s Tate Modern
This just in from Reverend Billy: A coalition of earth activist groups including Art Not Oil, Climate Rush, UK Tar Sands Coalition and Liberate Tate recently approached the Church of…
RBS Still Mired In Tar Sands
Last Summer we had a rather public row with RBS over its role in bankrolling fossil fuel expansion. Since then, the Bank’s PR team has been working overtime to clear…
Corporate Tax Dodgers: The Dirtiest Dozen
Co-authored by Matt Leonard Billionaire real estate investor and legendary tax evader Leona Helmsley famously said: “Only the little people pay taxes.” It turns out Helmsley was all too right….
Citi Needs an Intervention
Addiction – noun ə-ˈdik-shən, a-: persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful. (Merriam-Webster) Citi has a problem. Despite renewing its vows in 2009 to…
Gulf Coast vs. Tar Sands: Environmental Deathmatch
Last week, we reported that Canada’s tar sands have just become the biggest source of oil imports to the US. This week we compare tar sands to the other big…
National Day of Action, Night of Mourning Against Offshore Drilling. Friday, May 14
Day of Action, Night of Mourning Against Offshore Drilling www.ActAgainstOil.com SIGN UP- http://bit.ly/cyjsyl CONTACT- oilspill@risingtidenorthamerica.org Once again the fossil fuel industry has brought crisis to the Gulf Coast. Devastation of…
Banks Ranked and Spanked on Tar Sands
As an ode to the “rank ’em and spank ’em” strategy coined by our outgoing Executive Director Mike Brune, we proudly present the following roster of international banks backing expansion…